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1	Republic more books like this by Plato R.E. Allen's highly regarded translations of the dialogues of Plato have been praised for their faithfulness and readability. Many years in the making, his translation of "The Republic" has been eagerly awaited. It comes now to crown a distinguished classicist's efforts to make Plato's works available in readable and accurate translations. This ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.37! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Meditations more books like this by Aurelius Marcus Written in Greek by an intellectual Roman emperor without any intention of publication, the "Meditations" of Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180) offer a wide range of fascinating spiritual reflections and exercises developed, as the leader struggled to understand himself and make sense of the universe. Spanning from doubt and despair to conviction and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.36! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar...: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes more books like this by Thomas Cathcart, PhD, Daniel Klein This lively crash course in philosophy takes us on a hilarious - and at the same time, profound - tour through the great philosophical traditions, schools, concepts and thinkers. All with a light touch. As if being led on an intellectual adventure by a brilliant stand-up comic, the reader experiences light-hearted excursions through this ... see all copies from $6.33! new only from $6.33! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Nicomachean Ethics more books like this by Aristotle Aristotle, great Greek philosopher, researcher, reasoner, and writer, born at Stagirus in 384 BCE, was the son of Nicomachus, a physician, and Phaestis. He studied under Plato at Athens and taught there (367-347); subsequently he spent three years at the court of a former pupil, Hermeias, in Asia Minor and at this time married Pythias, one of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.65! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Utopia more books like this by Sir Thomas More Thomas More: Utopia/ Francis Bacon: New Atlantis/Henry Neville: The Isle of Pines With the publication of Utopia (1516), Thomas More introduced into the English language not only a new word, but a new way of thinking about the gulf between what ought to be and what is. His Utopia is at once a scathing analysis of the shortcomings of his own ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison more books like this by Michel Foucault A history of the development of the science of penology in the West. Foucault, a celebrated French scholar and former professor at the College de France, examines the shift in Western attitudes towards criminal justice and punishment, tracing their shift from an emphasis upon divine justice and retribution in the Middle Ages to the faith in ... see all copies from $5.00! new only from $8.64! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Critique of Pure Reason more books like this by Immanuel Kant Metaphysicians have for centuries attempted to clarify the nature of the world and how rational human beings construct their ideas of it. Materialists believed that the world (including its human component) consisted of objective matter, an irreducible substance to which qualities and characteristics could be attributed. Mind-thoughts, ideas, and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.25! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Life and Teaching of the Masters of the Far East more books like this by Baird T Spalding Abridged version of volume's 1-3 from Baird Spalding's Far East travels in 1894 that played a ground-breaking role in introducing to the Western world the knowledge that there are "Masters" assisting and guiding humanity. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.74! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Leviathan more books like this by Thomas Hobbes This is a critical edition of Hobbes's "Leviathan". Hobbes began writing "Leviathan" in Paris having fled there in 1640 as he saw the Civil War approaching. It was finished in early 1651 and sent to London to Hobbes's publisher, Andrew Crooke at the Green Dragon in St Paul's Churchyard. There are three editions all with the date 1651 and all three ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.10! \| first editions \| SVS
10	What Does It All Mean?: A Very Short Introduction to Philosophy more books like this by Thomas Nagel Most people think about philosophical problems without realizing it: What really exists? Can we know anything? Is anything really right or wrong? Does life have any meaning? Is death the end of everything? These problems have been written about for thousands of years, but the philosophical raw material comes directly from the world and our ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.79! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Basic Writings of Nietzsche more books like this by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Walter Kaufmann (Editor) One hundred years after his death, Friedrich Nietzsche remains the most influential philosopher of the modern era. Basic Writings of Nietzsche gathers the complete texts of five of Nietzsche's most important works, from his first book to his last: The Birth of Tragedy; Beyond Good and Evil; On the Genealogy of Morals; The Case of Wagner; and Ecce ... see all copies from $3.00! new only from $10.38! \| SVS
12 view cover	Politics more books like this by Aristotle Aristotle, great Greek philosopher, researcher, reasoner, and writer, born at Stagirus in 384 BCE, was the son of Nicomachus, a physician, and Phaestis. He studied under Plato at Athens and taught there (367-347); subsequently he spent three years at the court of a former pupil, Hermeias, in Asia Minor and at this time married Pythias, one of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.54! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Symposium more books like this by Plato The Symposium is a complex piece which is perhaps as widely read as any of Plato's works apart from the Republic. However the existing standard commentaries in English do not offer much by way of help to any reader except the classicist who knows Greek; and they also tend to be light on the dialogue as a work of philosophy. This new edition aims ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Last Days of Socrates more books like this by Plato The trial and condemnation of Socrates on charges of heresy and corrupting young minds is a defining moment in the history of Classical Athens. In tracing these events through four dialogues, Plato also developed his own philosophy, based on Socrates' manifesto for a life guided by self-responsibility. Euthyphro finds Socrates outside the court ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.20! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Five Dialogues more books like this by Plato This second edition of 'Five Dialogues' presents Grube's distinguished translations, as revised by John Cooper for 'Plato: Complete Works'. A number of new or expanded footnotes are also included along with an updated bibliography. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.95! \| first editions
16 view cover	The Problems of Philosophy more books like this by Bertrand Russell, Earl "Is there any knowledge in the world which is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?". Philosophy is the attempt to answer such ultimate questions, not carelessly and dogmatically, as we might deal with them in ordinary life, but critically, after analyzing how and why the questions arise in the first place and clarifying the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.39! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason more books like this by Michel Foucault In this classic account of madness, Michel Foucault shows once and for all why he is one of the most distinguished European philosophers since the end of World War II. His influence dominates contemporary thinking. Madness and Civilization is Foucault's first book, and his finest accomplishment. His other books expand on themes established here: ... see all copies from $2.58! new only from $8.64! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Consolation of Philosophy more books like this by Boethius In this highly praised new translation of Boethius' "The Consolation of Philosophy", David R. Slavitt presents a graceful, accessible, and modern version for both longtime admirers of one of the great masterpieces of philosophical literature and those encountering it for the first time. Slavitt preserves the distinction between the alternating ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Praise of Folly more books like this by Erasmus Erasmus of Rotterdam (c. 1466 1536) is one of the greatest figures of the Renaissance humanist movement, which abandoned medieval pieties in favour of a rich new vision of the individual's potential. Praise of Folly, written to amuse his friend Sir Thomas More, is Erasmus's best-known work. Its dazzling mixture of fantasy and satire is narrated by ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.52! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Social Contract more books like this by Jean Jacques Rousseau With the publication of "The Social Contract" in 1761, Jean-Jacques Rousseau took his place among the leading political philosophers of the Enlightenment. Like his contractarian predecessors (Thomas Hobbes and John Locke), Rousseau sought to ground his political theory in an understanding of human nature, which he believed to be basically good but ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.38! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Four Texts on Socrates: Plato's Euthyphro, Apology, and Crito, and Aristophanes' Clouds more books like this by Plato, Thomas West (Editor), Grace West (Editor) This book offers translations of four major works of ancient Greek literature which treat the life and thought of Socrates, focusing particularly on his trial and defense (the Platonic dialogues Euthyphro, Apology of Socrates, and Crito) and on the charges against Socrates (Aristophanes' comedy the Clouds). This is the only collection of the three ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.64! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	History of Western Philosophy more books like this by Bertrand Russell, Earl Since its first publication in 1945? Lord Russell's "A History of Western Philosophy" has been universally acclaimed as the outstanding one-volume work on the subject -- unparalleled in its comprehensiveness, its clarity, its erudition, its grace and wit. In seventy-six chapters he traces philosophy from the rise of Greek civilization to the ... see all copies from $3.91! new only from $14.39! \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Beyond good and evil: prelude to a philosophy of the future more books like this by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 'What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.' Always provocative, the Friedrich Nietzsche of Beyond Good and Evil (1886) is at once sceptical psychologist and philosopher-seer, passionately unmasking European society with his piercing insights and uncanny prescience. This masterpiece of his maturity considers quintessential ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.76! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Gorgias more books like this by Plato "I appeal to you to engage in this struggle, which is as worthwhile as any you'll find in this world." The struggle which Plato has Socrates recommend to his interlocutors in "Gorgias" - and to his readers - is the struggle to overcome the temptations of worldly success, and to concentrate on genuine morality. Ostensibly an enquiry into the value ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Fear and Trembling more books like this by Soren Kierkegaard In this rich and resonant work, Soren Kierkegaard reflects poetically and philosophically on the biblical story of God's command to Abraham, that he sacrifice his son Isaac as a test of faith. Was Abraham's proposed action morally and religiously justified or murder? Is there an absolute duty to God? Was Abraham justified in remaining silent? In ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.98! \| first editions \| SVS

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